Name-hallowing glorification of God reveals God in act in his deifying energies as wisdom, discerning God in act in his ever-present energies of glory, regenerating Holy Orthodoxy when it is tempted and brought low by confusion and division. Name-hallowing wisdom is holy theophany manifesting hallowing glory, communicating sound glorification, regenerating institutional Orthodox forms in ways that transfigure them as wisdom. The Lord’s… Read more »
Holy Theophany celebrates the baptism of Jesus as revelation of Holy Trinity, because as Christ was coming up out of the waters of the Jordan, John the Baptist saw the heavens open and the Holy Spirit descending like a dove, hearing the voice of God the Father saying: Thou art my Beloved Son in whom I am well pleased (Mk 1:10-11;… Read more »
The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father to abide in the Son, restoring glory to the Father through the Son, revealing Holy Trinity from the inside for all, in all. Proceeding and abiding are unceasing as the Spirit breathes life into each and all, inspiring whole-hearted trust. The Spirit of Truth sustains abiding way beyond the grasp of relative knowledge,… Read more »
Single-minded practice of the remembrance of God cures oblivious neglect and dissipating distraction by centering in the presence of God, which is the practice of glorification. The Holy Spirit breathes hallowing holiness into the midst of the heart, restoring glory to God. Wisdom is uncreated energy inhaling and exhaling holiness, glorifying God. Awareness and breath spontaneously conjoin as awareness turns and… Read more »
The consummation of glorification is not our human concern, but it is the ultimate concern of wisdom, whose insight into glorification listens to the Holy Spirit, revealing Christ’s consummation of glorification in the Father. Glorification is consummated by wisdom, whose embrace gazes deeply into the mystery of the kiss of peace, hidden in the Holy of Holies before the beginning and… Read more »
Multi-dimensional awareness is natural to wisdom just as multi-dimensional presence is characteristic of glory, opening glorification way beyond the three dimensions of space; namely, length, breadth and height, and the fourth dimension of time. Wisdom begins as a fifth dimension and glory as a sixth, but go on transcending as they unite in the seventh dimension of ineffable oneness. The eighth dimension of… Read more »
Joy abides with wisdom in her union with glory in the communion of saints. Grace generates trust that welcomes glory with wisdom. Love delights in the joy of wisdom, ecstatic without dissipation, rejoicing in the knowledge of God. Love does not envy the grace that saves, unlike demonic jealousy, that resents the communion of saints. Joy descends from heaven like lightening,… Read more »
Incisive glorification penetrates all ages of enlightened awareness, all dimensions of uncreated presence, opening earth to highest heaven in the empowering Name. The wisdom of the Cross is consummated with the glory of the Name, saving all with love, glorifying all with hallowing holiness. Life in God is God’s way of hallowing those who turn and see his uncreated presence… Read more »
Manifold wisdom shimmers and resonates with many qualities, many divine names, intelligent and holy, subtle and unique, active and incisive. Lucid and unsullied, the perfect completeness of wisdom is invulnerable and benevolent, sharp and irresistible. Love of wisdom lovingly embraces all souls, steadfast and dependable, unperturbed and all-penetrating, almighty and all-seeing. (Wisdom of Solomon 7:22-23). Manifold wisdom breathes the uncreated energies of God,… Read more »
The remembrance of God is in the image and likeness of God’s remembrance of God through God, Holy Trinity, securing remembrance from degenerating into obsession with anything other than God. Remembrance knows God alone is God and there is no other. When vainglory glorifies empire, race, nation, language or culture instead of God, ethnocentric addictions arise that usurp God, spawning phyletistic heresies that… Read more »